Word: strutted
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...girls are many, and often truly magnificent, whether in fine feathers or bare flesh. They strut and prance and gorgeously fill the stage, bringing the breath of life to tired businessmen-and God knows what to such as are not tired. Otherwise, Peep Show's cupboard is almost as bare as its chorines. The skits, which Bobby Clark staged but did not act in, are mostly ancient and frightful. The one exception: an almost hilarious take-off on The Cocktail Party. Only a little less crushing than the sketches are the more monumental of the spectacles. One of these...
Ringo meets these youths in every bar. They sneer at him, strut, and mutter that "he only has two hands, hasn't he." Then they very quickly draw and die. "Gunfighter" tells of Ringo's attempts to escape from these youths and from his own ability, and of the youth with an incipient moustache who is responsible for his final failure to escape...
...story of a woman's sinful progress from hard times to easy virtue. First, like many of her fans, she is a shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who doesn't understand her. Escaping rebelliously, she becomes a cynical tart with a burlesque strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including Kent Smith, an honest but weak accountant, and David Brian, a pseudo-respectable gangland...
...vast Irish castle, where scores of beady-eyed peacocks strut and scream about the lawns and terraces and a moldering stone wall shuts off the outside world, an aged English butler is dying. From time to time he groans out the name of an unknown loved one-"Ellen, Ellen...
...their stately, rambling hacienda house, ringed by a 15-foot brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...